Cowan/Cowen & Mitchell families form parish of Tynan Armagh

Jane,

Children that I can see for John Cowan & Rachel Hastings are:

William 13.6.1865

Elizabeth Milliken 29.6.1868 (presumably died by April 1870)

Elizabeth Milliken 29.4.1870

Thomas John 12.7.73

There may well have been children between 1858 and 1863 but that was before birth registration, so no birth certs. You would need to search church baptism records to locate them, and to do that you would need to know which church they attended.

There are trees on Ancestry which have John Cowan dying 1889 and Rachel in 1894 in Belfast. However I cannot see death certificates that match that information. There was a Rachel Cowan death registered in Belfast in 1894 but she was a spinster, so clearly not your family. Possibly someone has guessed the event.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1894/05952/4691647.pdf

This could be John Cowan’s death in 1874. You would need to check the workhouse admission records in PRONI to see who his next of kin was:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1874/020673/7253930.pdf

Another possibility here:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_retu…